Why Medical Neglect & Ill-Treatment legislation is needed The wilful neglect or ill treatment of patients by healthcare workers will become an offence in its own right; there is already criminal legislation which acts to prevent such actions and many in the...

As predicted: the two tier health service has begun The number of people waiting for routine surgical procedures is now at its highest for six years. The response by the NHS now is to quite candidly invite patients to pay for their own treatment. Dr. Clive Peedell,...

As time to the Independence referendum ticks by and the debates become ever more heated it can only be fair to say that little has been made of the importance of the NHS in Scotland and even less consideration has been given to a stand alone Scottish health service....

The Good News is Ebola has not detected in the UK, yet. The current outbreak in West Africa is said to be the worst to date with 887 known to have died from the disease although this may have been severely underestimated. Although Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are...

Poor Communication is still a leading predisposing factor for Claims To understand why a patient becomes a claimant it is important to remember the two foundations on which claims arise. Predisposing factors set the scene: these are for example being kept waiting, not...

Never out of the limelight for very long, Aspirin again makes a debute and with this drug comes the double-edged sword of whether to take it or not. There have now been so many studies on Aspirin that we are now facing studies about the studies. This may seem...